Carl Trumbull HAYDEN

(1877-1972)

Senate Years of Service:

1927-1969

Party:

Democrat

HAYDEN, Carl Trumbull, a
Representative and a Senator from Arizona; born in Hayden’s
Ferry (now Tempe), Maricopa County, Ariz., October 2, 1877;
attended the public schools; graduated from the Normal School of
Arizona at Tempe in 1896; attended Leland Stanford Junior
University, California 1896-1900; engaged in mercantile pursuits
and in the flour-milling business at Tempe 1900-1904; member, Tempe
Town Council 1902-1904; treasurer of Maricopa County 1904-1906;
sheriff of Maricopa County 1907-1912; upon the admission of Arizona
as a State into the Union was elected as a Democrat to the
Sixty-second Congress; reelected to the seven succeeding Congresses
and served from February 19, 1912, to March 3, 1927; did not seek
renomination, having become a candidate for United States Senator;
during the First World War was commissioned a major of Infantry in
the United States Army; elected as a Democrat to the United States
Senate in 1926 for the term commencing March 4, 1927; reelected in
1932, 1938, 1944, 1950, 1956, and again in 1962 for the term ending
January 3, 1969; was not a candidate in 1968 for reelection to the
United States Senate; served as President pro tempore of the Senate
during the Eighty-fifth through the Ninetieth Congresses; chairman,
Committee on Printing (Seventy-third through Seventy-ninth
Congresses), Committee on Rules and Administration (Eighty-first
and Eighty-second Congresses), co-chairman, Joint Committee on
Printing (Eighty-first and Eighty-second, and Eighty-fourth through
Ninetieth Congresses), co-chairman, Joint Committee on Inaugural
Arrangements (Eightieth and Eighty-second Congresses), chairman,
Committee on Appropriations (Eighty-fourth through Ninetieth
Congresses); his record for fifty-six consecutive years of service
in the Congress, including an unprecedented forty-two in the
Senate, was unsurpassed at the time of his retirement; retired and
resided in Tempe, Ariz.; died in Mesa, Ariz., January 25, 1972;
cremated; ashes interred in family plot at Tempe Butte Cemetery,
Tempe, Ariz.

Bibliography

American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; August, Jack L., Jr. Vision in the Desert: Carl
Hayden and Hydropolitics in the American Southwest. Fort Worth:
Texas Christian University Press, 1998; Rice, Ross R. Carl
Hayden: Builder of the American West. Lanham, MD: University
Press of America, 1994;

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present